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The Lover was published 30 years ago. Paris Review on the continuing influence of Duras’ most popular work.

Duras herself was surprised by the breathless praise The Lover received; she dismissed the book, even going so far as to rewrite it, in the form of notes to a film, as The North China Lover. And Laura Adler, in her unauthorized biography Marguerite Duras: A Life, writes that the author had harsh words for it, international acclaim or no.

“The Lover is a load of shit,” she told Annaud when the two were collaborating on the film adaptation. “It’s an airport novel. I wrote it when I was drunk.”

Audio Kulture prints magazine and posters in blood to commemorate the mass killing of Armenians in 1915